14 Aug
2007
14 Aug
'07
10:32 a.m.
Scott
The other downside is that even with two transceivers, I'm unable to work full-duplex. The two bands on the antenna use seperate elements and feed points, but share a boom. Transmitting on 2m completely overloads the front-end of the IC-7000. While full duplex would be useful, it's not absolutely necessary.
Theres also the old fashioned stub, you put a 2m quarter-wave open-circuit stub on the 70cm feeder close to the input of the preamp (maybe another close to the input of the rig). A little bit tricky to tune (fabricate it long and snip tiny bits of it off until you get maximum attenuation).
73 Richard G3RWL